Jamais Cascio Quotes

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• Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

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  Community, Innovation, Working Together

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• By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

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  Today, Tomorrow

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• Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

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  Goal, Survival, Resilience

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• Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.

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  Design, Energy, May

  Jamais Cascio “Hacking the Earth”, Lulu.com

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• To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.

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  Would Be, Global Warming, Geoengineering

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• Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment.

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  Thinking, Agriculture, Water

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• Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.

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  Winning, Trying, Littles

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• Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.

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  Real, Encounters, Body

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• Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

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  Focus And Concentration, Creative, Drug

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• As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

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  Real, Book, Website

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• Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity.

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  Needs, Decrease, Increase

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• The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

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  Work, Technology, Differences

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• Is there a better example of natural selection in action than 'Project Runway?'

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  Example, Action, Natural

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• Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

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  Hard Work, Thinking, Practice

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• Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

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  Tunnels, Wind, Strategy

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• Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

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  Gathering, Development, Might

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• Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

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  Stress, Strategy, Turns

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• Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.

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  Cutting, Clouds, Data

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• Human civilization has been changing the Earths environment for millennia, often to our detriment. Dams, deforestation and urbanization can alter water cycles and wind patterns, occasionally triggering droughts or even creating deserts.

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  Urbanization, Wind, Civilization

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• In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.

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  Eye, World, Skeptical

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• Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.

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  Needs, Internet, Clear

  "Anonymizing the Web" by Jamais Cascio, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.

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• Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

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  Wall, Mean, Action

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• Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

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  Cat, Brain, Able

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• Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

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  Faces, Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouses

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• I have to admit it: I'm not a huge fan of the cloud computing concept.

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  Clouds, Fans, Cloud Computing

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